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Will we ever see the Giants coming? The team Brian Sabean and Bruce Bochy put together since saying goodbye to Barry Bonds is the only National League team to win the World Series twice within three seasons since the Big Red Machine, yet the Giants somehow seem cuddly, not menacing. They appear beatable right up to the time they get the 27th out and storm the mound. The hitters who face Matt Cain, Madison Bumgarner, Tim Lincecum and Ryan Vogelsong will tell you there was nothing fluky about how the Giants throttled the Tigers last October and the Rangers in 2010. But Clayton Kershaw and the big-spending Dodgers will be the talk of Arizona, not the Giants. If Don Mattingly can get...

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Will we ever see the Giants coming?
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